Outputs (32)

Co-location of fisheries and offshore wind farms: current practices and enabling conditions in the North Sea (2023)
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Owusu Bonsu, P., Letschert, J., Yates, K., Christian Svendsen, J., Berkenhagen, J., Rozemeijer, M., …Stelzenmüller, V. (2024). Co-location of fisheries and offshore wind farms: current practices and enabling conditions in the North Sea. Marine Policy, 159, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105941

Current expansion in offshore wind farm (OWF) development is resulting in increased spatial conflicts with other uses. In the North Sea, marine spatial planning (MSP) processes include co-existence strategies, with co-location between fisheries and... Read More about Co-location of fisheries and offshore wind farms: current practices and enabling conditions in the North Sea.

Dune slope, not wind speed, best predicts bare sand in vegetated coastal dunes. (2023)
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Smyth, T., Rooney, P., & Yates, K. (2023). Dune slope, not wind speed, best predicts bare sand in vegetated coastal dunes. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 27, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-023-00957-9

Globally vegetation cover on coastal sand dunes has increased since at least the 1950s. With the aim of restoring or increasing biodiversity, land managers in several countries have removed vegetation and/or reprofiled dune slopes to reinvigorate geo... Read More about Dune slope, not wind speed, best predicts bare sand in vegetated coastal dunes..

Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable (2022)
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Smyth, T. A., Wilson, R., Rooney, P., & Yates, K. L. (2022). Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable. Aeolian research, 56, 100799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2022.100799

Vegetation cover on coastal sand dunes has been increasing worldwide since at least the 1940s. Analysis of aerial and satellite imagery has been the principal source used to measure this change, however no studies have systematically evaluated the ac... Read More about Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable.

The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 : opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery (2021)
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Hermoso, V., Carvalho, S., Giakoumi, S., Goldsborough, D., Katsanevakis, S., Leontiou, S., …Yates, K. (2022). The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 : opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery. Environmental Science and Policy, 127, 263-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.028

The European Union (EU) has committed to an ambitious biodiversity recovery plan in its Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the Green Deal. These policies aim to halt biodiversity loss and move towards sustainable development, focusing on restoring de... Read More about The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 : opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery.

The nature and extent of evidence on methodologies for monitoring and evaluating marine spatial management measures in the UK and similar coastal waters: a systematic map (2021)
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O’Leary, B. C., Copping, J. P., Mukherjee, N., Dorning, S. L., Stewart, B. D., McKinley, E., …Yates, K. L. (2021). The nature and extent of evidence on methodologies for monitoring and evaluating marine spatial management measures in the UK and similar coastal waters: a systematic map. Environmental Evidence, 10(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-021-00227-x

Background: Anthropogenic degradation of marine ecosystems is widely accepted as a major social-ecological problem. The growing urgency to manage marine ecosystems more effectively has led to increasing application of spatial management measures (mar... Read More about The nature and extent of evidence on methodologies for monitoring and evaluating marine spatial management measures in the UK and similar coastal waters: a systematic map.

Sidney Holt’s legacy lives on in fisheries science (2021)
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Anderson, E., Bartolino, V., Birchenough, S., Browman, H., Gibbs, M., Hidalgo, M., …Yates, K. (2021). Sidney Holt’s legacy lives on in fisheries science. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 78(6), 2150-2154. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsab091

On 22 December 2019, the world of fisheries science and whale conservation lost one of its most ardent champions with the passing of Sidney J. Holt. His career began in 1947 at the age of 21. Ten years later, he and his colleague Ray Beverton publish... Read More about Sidney Holt’s legacy lives on in fisheries science.

Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science (2021)
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Pittman, S., Yates, K., Bouchet, P., Alvarez-Berastegui, D., Andréfouët, S., Bell, S., …Young, M. (2021). Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 663, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13661

Seascape ecology, the marine-centric counterpart to landscape ecology, is rapidly emerging as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance to marine management, biodiversity conservation, and restoration. While import... Read More about Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science.

Evaluation of marine spatial planning requires fit for purpose monitoring strategies (2020)
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Stelzenmüller, V., Cormier, R., Gee, K., Shucksmith, R., Gubbins, M., Yates, K., …Clarke, S. (2021). Evaluation of marine spatial planning requires fit for purpose monitoring strategies. Journal of Environmental Management, 278, 111545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111545

Marine spatial planning (MSP) has rapidly become the most widely used integrated, place-based management approach in the marine environment. Monitoring and evaluation of MSP is key to inform best practices, adaptive management and plan iteration. Whi... Read More about Evaluation of marine spatial planning requires fit for purpose monitoring strategies.

Twelve recommendations for advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas (2020)
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Katsanevakis, S., Coll, M., Fraschetti, S., Giakoumi, S., Goldsborough, D., Mačić, V., …Yates, K. (2020). Twelve recommendations for advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 565968. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.565968

Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor environmental condition with deteriorating trends. Despite several success storie... Read More about Twelve recommendations for advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas.

A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models (2020)
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Zurrel, D., Franklin, J., König, C., Yates, K., Zimmerman, N., & Merow, C. (2020). A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models. Ecography, 43(9), 1261-1277. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04960

Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of models across ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent of ready-to-use software pack - ages and increasing availability of digital geoinformation have considerably assis... Read More about A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models.